Symphony No.3 In D Minor by Gustav Mahler

Symphony No.3 In D Minor by Gustav Mahler

Mahler's third symphony, scored for a massive orchestra, was conceived as a vast cycle in six movements, including the opening march, the moving setting for alto solo of Nietzsche's Oh Mensch Gib Acht and a setting for women's and boys' choirs of Es sungen drei Engel, on a text from Das Knaben Wunderhorn.
Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable miniature-score edition offers music lovers, performers, and students an opportunity to study the orchestral innovations of this great music and explore the genius of the composer often regarded as the last great Austrian symphonist.

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), an Austrian composer and conductor, is best known for his symphonies and Lieder. His turbulent paintings, which are late Romantic in style, reflect the uneasy spirit of Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The composer's music was repressed by the Nazis due to his Jewish ancestry, but it has undergone a steady comeback over the last five decades.